Language Assessment

What is the concept of a learning objective?

• A learning objective must include the phrases "to know" and "to understand".

• A learning objective is a general statement of what the overall goal is in a lesson.

• A learning objective should describe what students should know or able to do at the end of the lesson that they couldn't do before.

What is assessment?

• A method or a systematic procedure to measure a person’s ability,knowledge, or performance in a certain domain by posing a set of questions

• Various procedures used to obtain information about student performance or learning progress

• A structured method to score students' performance

Which of the following statement is true?

• All assessment is testing

• All tests are formal assessment

• Test and assessment are the same concepts.

Which of the followings is the assessment purpose for instructional purposes?

• To provide feedback to my students

• To provide information to the central administration (school,

  university, Dinas Pendidikan)

• To diagnose my strength and weaknesses in my teaching

Refers to the level of consistency of an assessment tool and the degree to which the same results are obtained when the assessment tool is used repeatedly with the same individuals or group.

• Reliability

• Variance

• Validity

Do you need to increase or decrease the number of questions on a test to increase reliability?

• Decrease

• Increase

The degree to which an assessment accurately assesses the concept and/or skill we are attempting to measure.

• Reliability

• validity

• Error margin

It is important for teacher to understand the concept of validity because:

• Teachers should consider more than one learning objective across other subject when assessing students.

• It does not matter because they do not create any assessments.

• Teachers must understand that any created assessment should accurately measure what it is intended to measure.

Suppose you created a new reading comprehension test and you want to test its validity. Therefore you compare the results of your new measure to existing validated measures of reading comprehension and find that your measure compares well with these other measures. We could then say that your new measure has good:

• content validity

• criterion validity

• predictive validity

• concurrent validity

Which of the followings is not assessment principles?

• Practicality

• Reliability

• Standard error

• Washback